I don’t know about you, but there are days when I feel like George Costanza’s father, “Frank” from the tv series Seinfeld. You know the episode where he is trying to start his computer sales business and he is yelling “Serenity Now… Serenity Now” ironically in order to keep his stress level down. I believe […]

So let’s just say my dad is an information “junkie”. He is a retired College teacher, an engineer, and an all-around inquisitive guy. When my brother and I were kids there was a rule that my dad desperately tried to instill. For every half hour of “crap tv” (as he called it) we had to […]

When you watch TV you see there are lots of commercials for ads with Rolaids, or Pepto Bismol or other antacids. Why? Well let’s take a look at the following scenario… “Ah yes, please more free bread!” “Oh, is that stuffed mushrooms, spinach canapés, and little yummy piggies in a blanket? Oh well, just a […]

I’m not sure exactly when I first learned of Listening therapy or Therapeutic Listening (the form we did in the documentary), but I know I came across it when researching Sensory Integration Therapy as well as the method explained in the book The Brain’s Way of Healing by Norman Doige, M.D. Sensory Integration Therapy deals […]

I had watched the NBC movie “Son Rise: A Miracle of Love” after coming across it somewhere on the Internet. It’s an old movie and the story goes back even further, since it’s based on the book Son Rise written by Barry Neil Kaufman back in the 70’s when his son Raun was still young. […]

Imagine if you will. Entering a room you meet a man, his face is familiar but he is in despair. He is a mathematics professor, his language is that of formulas and equations. Yet today, he has only one question on his mind. He speaks to you. “what are the damn words to Twinkle Twinkle […]

For those of you who don’t know Ted from our documentary – Beyond the Spectrum… he LOVES all things Space! Stargazing is something he has been doing for about 3 or 4 years now. Before that he just studied books and Astronomy magazines slowly teaching himself the arrangement of star patterns and which were actually […]

Think back to when you were a child. Most of us can’t remember when we were toddlers, but most can remember maybe back to Kindergarten or preschool. What were your days and weekends like? I know for me it was a LOT of playing. I could play alone by myself or with a friend or […]

I don’t know about you, but when I hear a beat – I’m a toe tapper! I’m one of those people who even at a symphony concert can’t … sit… still. And even though I took many years of piano lessons was never very good and the same goes with my dance skills! However, there […]

A term that will often come in up in circles of parents with children with ASD is “Biomedical treatments” or “Biomed” for short. So if you’re a parent to a child with a new diagnosis I will explain a little bit of our experience and what it means to our family. For our family perhaps […]